By Bella Filacuridi
According to transgender sex worker Lilith Staalesen, the current prostitution policies in Norway neglect sex worker rights and facilitate unsafe working environments. Nearly 10 years since the criminalisation of purchasing sexual services, sex workers are still fighting for standardised labour working regulations to ensure their safety.
by Beatričė Bankauskaitė & Tereza Dorňáková
Twenty-three years ago peace between the former Yugoslav republics was “officially established” by the Dayton Agreement, however, the reconciliation between the countries has been still in making. Such a significant field as education is still left behind the “more important” topics in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The project touches two examples of division in education – different content of history textbooks and phenomenon “two schools under one roof”. In the last section you will get interactive “history lesson” about the Siege of Sarajevo and about the most important events during 20th century in Western Balkans territory.
A deep dive into the day to day routine of polyamorous couples in Norway, while examining the often harsh criticism society throws at their love.
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By Clíona Perrick and Henriette Isachsen.
As of January 1st 2018, Denmark begun a four-year trial legalizing the cultivation and use of medicinal cannabis. Cannabis Conversation examines Denmark’s quest for dominance in the European cannabis industry, and highlights Danish patients’ stigma and struggles for acceptance.
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Amy Holloway and Annie McCann
Italy has been in a political cage-match with Brussels for the past weeks and the ripples of EU-distrust in the Italian coalition-government has brought on a political exhaustion in Italy – but it is not only limited to the populists. And it’s not over.
Read more at http://euscepticism.mediajungle.dk
The Baltic Cod has been drastically declining in numbers due to overfishing throughout the years, however ocean conservation groups are now pressuring EU ministers to tighten fishing quotas in hopes of rehabilitating the cod.
Link: www.jackiesmail20.wixsite.com/balticcod
By Emil Rosborg and Jeppe Mikkelsen
The volcano island in the North Atlantic was saved by a huge climb in tourism growth during the financial crisis. Now the tourism is losing its stamina, and that means downsizing in the most important industry in the country.
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Signing a tobacco-banning treaty called FCTC in 2005, European Union has regulated second-hand smoking at public places by making the related laws. Denmark also has joined to tobacco-banning stream from 2007, however, there are still many people are exposed to second-hand smoke.
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The joint program aims at providing Lebanese MA physics students with the skills they cannot acquire in the country and opening on their behalf a door of a million opportunities.
By Sally Farhat
The picture shows Mohamad Khalil
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Read more on the Lebanese community in Denmark here
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By Sina Götz
In November the United Nations started an investigation into extreme poverty in one of the richest countries of the world: the United Kingdom. 14 million people – a fifth of the UK population – live in poverty. The ones suffering the most are homeless and rough sleepers.
Read more here.
With some of the strictest laws in Europe, Poland has created a country that provides women with barely any rights to legal abortions. But with the recent wave of women’s movements, more Polish women are standing up to this oppression.
Read the full story: https://anapaulacanol.wixsite.com/abortioninpoland
Since 2002, doctors in the Netherlands have been legally helping patients die. Dutch euthanasia and assisted suicide laws are among the least restrictive.
To read more about those who spend their lives working with death, click here.
In 2018 Denmark stopped accepting UN Quota refugees to focus on the integration of existing refugees. However, a recent finance act for 2019 states otherwise. Van Damme a refugee hoping to gain asylum in Denmark shares his uncertainty and how he finds his refuge in civil response programs like DFUNK.
Read the full story here: “I’m wasting my childhood being a refugee”
Van Damme (left) hopes to seek asylum in Denmark
By Thomas Balbierer
The Danish government leaves the door open for another prolongation of controls at the German border. The Ministry of Immigration and Integration could not declare, “whether or not the internal border control will be prolonged after May 2019”. Denmark re-introduced the checks during the refugee crisis in January 2016.
Read the full story: https://borderconflicts.home.blog/